No not really, in every genre there is music that is timeless, and music that has dated, prog is no exception, t for every band that has stood the test of time there is another that sounds bland and derivative.

This is true. There are great classics that stood the tests of time, and other pieces that few people remember now. Of course, what "ages well" and what not is pretty much a subjective notion; one man's classic is another man's howler.

But I think that there is a good number of progressive rock pieces that have aged very well and continue to inspire young musicians into doing good music.

I kinda feel like a lot of 70s music is pretty timeless. Might have something to do with the production. I personally at least feel that a lot of 80's music suffers from the use of early digital technology that really doesn't sound good today.

No not really, in every genre there is music that is timeless, and music that has dated, prog is no exception, t for every band that has stood the test of time there is another that sounds bland and derivative.

Yes and no about Tangerine Dream. A year ago I played Phaedra for a flatmate and he had no idea it was as old as the mid-1970s. Their digital phase from Force Majeure up to the mid-1980s, though, there's no mistaking for the product of any other time.

That said I've also encountered quite a few fans of electronic music who find TD too technologically primitive, or too closely rooted in Krautrock and modern classical to be "real" electronic music.

Some things sound quite dated in prog. Marillion with the synthesisers for example, or electronic stuff like Tangerine Dream when as a kid I hear all kinds of electronic music out there today. I still listen to those sorts of bands though, and they're not as outdated as other bands/genres.

I think the music ages well even if the band members do not. It tends to age along with its listeners. When i went to the Yes CONCERT LAST YEAR, the auditorium was full of oldies like me but we got on well as a result.

That one fart band with Ron Geesin and Roger Waters was fun also! ... and it was musical, too! Rather progressive sound wise since the putting it together was so clever and the sequences were so different, with so many jagged sounds kinda on top of each other.

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I wonder sometimes if a timeless feeling is all that great (it kind of is, but I'm playing Devil's advocate here). What I mean is listening to something many years later you lose track of how truly innovative something was at the time it came out. Hot Rats was not the first Jazz Rock album, but it was awfully close. I somehow lose that feeling that a breakthrough has occurred with some things that have that sense of timelessness to them. ITCOCK seems very dated to me, but maybe that's helped it's recognition so many years later.

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